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Steve Jobs's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 21 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Steve Jobs, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/steve-jobs-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Mucusless Diet Healing System
Arnold Ehret · Buy on Amazon
"I got into it in my typical nutso way."
Be Here Now
Ram Dass · Buy on Amazon
"Profound. It transformed me and many of my friends."
The Way of the White Clouds
Lama Anagarika Govinda · Buy on Amazon
"Zen has been a deep influence in my life ever since."
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove · Buy on Amazon
Meetings with Remarkable Men
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff · Buy on Amazon
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
Christopher Isherwood · Buy on Amazon
The Tao of Programming
Geoffrey James · Buy on Amazon
Diet for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappe · Buy on Amazon
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville (also rec’d by Bob Dylan , Bruce Springsteen , John Irving , Norman Mailer , Patti Smith , Penn Jillette , Ray Bradbury , Steve Jobs & Tilda Swinton ) · Buy on Amazon
"Jobs told me that Moby Dick was among his favorite books and he reread it a lot when he was a teen.” -Walter Isaacson"
Inside the Tornado
Geoffrey A. Moore · Buy on Amazon
1984
George Orwell (also rec’d by David Bowie, John Lennon & Stephen King ) · Buy on Amazon
"The book that inspired one of the greatest TV ads , 1984 was among Jobs’ favorites and he regularly recommended it to new hires."
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand · Buy on Amazon
"One of the final films Jobs saw was Part 1 of Atlas Shrugged at his local theater. “Steve was very fast thinking and wanted to do things, I wanted to build things. I think Atlas Shrugged was one of his guides in life” -Steve Wozniak"
Cover of King Lear
King Lear
William Shakespeare · Buy on Amazon
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Shunryu Suzuki · Buy on Amazon
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas (also rec’d by Annie Clark ) · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Chogyam Trungpa · Buy on Amazon
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda · Buy on Amazon
"Upon his death, this title was sent out to several hundred of Jobs’ friends as a farewell gift he organized for his memorial. Speaking of one of his trips to India, Jobs said, “I read it several times, because there was not a lot to do, and I walked around from village to village and recovered from my dysentery."

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